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Modern English → Old English

Old English word for likeness

5 headwords match “likeness”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; gelicnes ranks first.

  1. 1

    gelicnes

    score 20

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    likeness — similarity, likeness

    • appears in the definition
    • listed as an English descendant
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular gelīcnes
    genitive singular ġelīcnesse
    dative singular ġelīcnesse
    accusative singular ġelīcnesse
    nominative plural ġelīcnessa, ġelīcnesse
    genitive plural ġelīcnessa
  2. 2

    licnes

    score 15

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    likeness — likeness, similarity

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular līcnes
    genitive singular līcnesse
    dative singular līcnesse
    accusative singular līcnesse
    nominative plural līcnessa, līcnesse
    genitive plural līcnessa
  3. 3

    anlicnes

    score 15

    noun, feminine · strong ō-stem · 4 inflected forms

    likeness — likeness, resemblance

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular anlīcnes
    genitive singular anlīcnesse
    dative singular anlīcnesse
    accusative singular anlīcnesse
    nominative plural anlīcnessa, anlīcnesse
    genitive plural anlīcnessa
  4. 4

    hiew

    score 11

    noun, neuter · strong a-stem · 5 inflected forms

    likeness — form, appearance, likeness

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular hīew
    genitive singular hīewes
    dative singular hīewe
    accusative singular hīew
    nominative plural hīew
    genitive plural hīewa
  5. 5

    biliþ

    score 8

    noun

    likeness — an image, likeness

    • appears in the definition

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “likeness” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.

The English word opens the headword's definition+10
It appears later in the first definition+6
It appears in any definition+3
It is in the headword's links+2
It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence)+9
The headword has an inflection table+3
Part of speech is a proper noun−5
Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy)−3
The headword is an alternative form−6
The first definition is longer than three words−2

A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.

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